Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central America, foreign oil capital is welcome, and a widespread oil hunt is under way. Union Oil Co. of California is about ready to start test drilling in Western Panama. Nicaragua has let concessions along its coasts. In Honduras, Texas oilmen are sinking test wells near the Nicaraguan border. Signal Oil & Gas Co. recently obtained a 670,000-acre concession in Guatemala, and a score of other U.S. firms have put in applications. The search for more oil is also going on elsewhere. Gulf Oil Corp. is planning to spend more than $1,000,000 this year on exploration...
...Next week ABC will launch Treasure Hunt (Fri. 9 p.m.), offering a paltry $25,000 to the person who picks the right treasure out of a muckle of 50 chests. If he misses the moneybags, he may still win title to a car, speedboat, house trailer, round-the-world cruise or a head of cabbage. Treasure Hunt will be the only show on the air that will call for old-fashioned wishbone-type luck. Says ABC President Bob Kintner: "We are more interested in giving away entertainment...
...repeated over and over again in all eras and societies, thus furnishing clues to the universal unconscious, just as an individual's dreams may give clues to his individual unconscious. Taking off from that theory, a London Jungian named Leopold Stein has started a major psychological witch hunt. Dr. Stein believes that witch types (he calls them "loathsome women") can be found just about anywhere in modern life...
...banquet settings of a sort that had previously been made in candy or wax. He could turn his patron's dining table into a miniature park or stage alive with glistening birds or gaily obscene mimes from the Italian Commedia dell'arte. Sometimes he would create a hunt, a concert, or a table-top display of drawing-room conceits. The Hand Kiss is part of a humorous circle of distractions derived from Molière, in which the gallant's daring is brought to nothing by the lady's jealous lap dog and busy blackamoor...
Observers who believe today's search for new musical sounds is neurotic may be right, but the search continues with the frenzy of a uranium hunt. Westminster, a member of the recording elite, takes a flyer into sonic oddities with Soundproof, a collection of popular tunes played on doctored pianos by Louis Teicher and Arthur Ferrante...